Music Review

Buck Jump (1999)

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Reviewed by Marc Weingarten | Jun 04, 1999
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; Genre: Jazz

The veteran N'awlins septet has never strayed too far from its mission: to throw brass knuckles into bumptious beats and boot everyone's rump in the process. On their latest album, Buck Jump — produced by avant-jazz keyboardist John Medeski — the band comes out with horns a-blazing, kicking it second-line style on ''Old School,'' stirring up a sticky rumba on ''Pet the Kat,'' and turning Marvin Gaye's ''Inner City Blues'' into a menacing midnight creep through the French Quarter. B+

Originally posted Jun 04, 1999 Published in issue #488 Jun 04, 1999 Order article reprints

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